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NEW
LANDSCAPES
February
24 - March 14
William Breen : Marika Borlase: Juli Haas:
Mark Ogge: Marise Maas :
Garry Pumfrey : Ken Smith : Valerie Sparks: Emma Walker : Simeon
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LIZZIE
BUCKMASTER DOVE - AN END TO MYTH
March 17 - April 4
Deliberately referencing the practices
of museology and natural science Buckmaster-Dove subverts these
traditional frameworks to present a new reading of our country’s
environmental beauty. Her paper sculptures appeal to our sense
of gentle beauty and notions of wildlife neatly subdued. Through
her delicate treatment of fragile forms Buckmaster-Dove sensitively
and gently unravels our preconceptions of natural beauty and
asks us to see with fresh eyes the unique and precious life
found in the Australian landscape.
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GREER
HONEYWILL - OFF THE PLAN April
7 - May 2
Greer
Honeywill is an acclaimed artist whose career to date has addressed
Australian social forms, with particular reference to the home
and the material culture of the domestic. In Off the Plan,
her gaze focuses sharply upon architecture: both as a utopic,
aspirational paradigm for the home-maker; and as the site of
a psychological archive of the self. These two aspects or modes
of the architecture of the home, representing the public and
the personal, could be described as the house-as-desire, and
the home-as-imaginary. (Excerpt from exhibition catalogue 'Greer
Honeywill: Everyday Utopia' by Kit Wise.)
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WILLIAM
BREEN May 5 - 23
With
a subdued palette of blues, greens and greys, and a lowering
of dark skies and darkened valleys we are transported. (Breen's)
landscapes take in a vista that is almost terrifying in ambition.
This is the world of Caspar David Friedrich, the world of
the sublime. Looking at these landscapes it is as though William
Breen is inviting us to join him in a long, contemplative
walk. This is a place where the soul can take a moment of
respite. (Excerpt from exhibition catalogue 'Here & Now'
by Ashley Crawford.)
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EXPLORATION
9 May 26 - June 13
Each
year the directorial team at Flinders Lane Gallery seek fresh
talent to curate into this annual show. EXPLORATION provides
commercial opportunities for emerging artists, while also offering
buyers the ability to purchase works by promising artists of
tomorrow. Showcasing
fresh emerging artists : RY DAVID BRADLEY : JEAN LYONS : BEN
McKEOWN : LISA O'FLYNN : JOHN PARKINSON : DAVID PITT : MICHAEL
STANIAK : JEE YOUNG PARK
Featured image (detail) by Jean Lyons, Melbourne. |
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20PLUS
- THE SUM OF US June 16 - July
18
Celebrating
twenty years of exhibitions, Flinders Lane Gallery will curate
a special selection of new artworks by our gallery artists. |
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KATHRYN
RYAN July 21 - August 15
Ryan
spends months on each canvas, slowly building up the work’s
own history to realise her concerns with depth, harmony, light,
space and balance. The resulting works verge on photorealist,
as majestic trees float in an ethereal, ambiguous fog. |
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TERRI
BROOKS August 18 - September 5
Walking
in, looking at, and photographing the local environment is integral
to Brooks’
painting process. In this respect she is a landscape painter.
Graffiti continues to be a central concern, paying homage to
the natural cycle of urban disintegration and renewal.
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DAMIEN
ELDERFIELD August
18 - September 5
Combining
his already recognizable use of glistening stainless steel and
earthy basalt rock, this latest offering incorporates the use
of industrial forms suggesting complex movement and dynamism.
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SIMEON
WALKER - THE BEAUTY OF THE ORDINARY September
8 - 26
The
fine oil paintings of Simeon Walker have more recently focused
on singular aspects of the landscape. His personal concerns
for the unique environment of this country combine with his
ongoing fascination with the landscape’s effects on the
human psyche. |
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GARRY
PUMFREY September
8 - 26
Best
known for his rendering of West Australia’s burgeoning
industrial sector and his questioning of our current level of
consumer consumption, Pumfrey will now turn his attention to
the streets and buildings of Melbourne. |
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MARGARET
ACKLAND - MEMENTOS September 29
- October 17
Delicately
rendered, the painterly forms presented in Ackland's solo exhibition
Mementos, possess a quality of movement suggestive of the ethereal.
Imbuing meaning within the delicate folds of personal clothing
her garments are rendered as though caught in the act of slipping
from the body. Floating, translucent and sheer, these cast aside
clothes suggest a connectedness between the body and the void,
and hint toward the psychological shroud or wrapping that houses
our concept of the self. |
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JULI
HAAS September
29 - October 17
In
this watery world of somnambulist pleasure-seeking, the unconscious
is liberated from its earthly moorings. Juli Haas has given
the characters within her new series of dark vignettes passage
to sail the oceans of fantasy, to escape the familiarity of
the everyday in order to act out their deeper impulses.
Like
ships encased within bottles, the boats in this series represent
a compulsive tendency to allegorise our experiences from within
the private cocoon of our dreams. |
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MARIKA
BORLASE October 20 - November 7
Images
from found or personal photographs have become embedded in Marika
Borlase's memory. Manipulated, distorted and shifted the original
sources become stripped of meaning in the attempt to create
a new memory system. |
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MELINDA
SCHAWEL - FULL CIRCLE October
20 - November 7
Melinda
Schawel's new works reveal telling observations of a tumultuous
American climate of economic, religious and political uncertainty.
As an American expatriate the United States represents for this
artist a place both familiar and deeply foreign. |
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MARISE
MAAS November 10 - 28
There
is a sense of joy and celebration in Maas' work, her lines responding
to the essence of a thing rather than to its implied meaning
or value. Discarded everyday objects carry the same weight and
value as a beloved horse or a seed pod. This will be Marise
Maas' sixth exhibition at Flinders Lane Gallery.
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TREASURES
December 1 - 19
Gallery
artists present new affordable works to celebrate the festive
season.
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